Betty Rae Frank KC

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "C2FO official", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. HouseBlaster^talk 17:10, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

September 2023

Hello Betty Rae Frank KC. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Betty Rae Frank KC. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Betty Rae Frank KC|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. 331dot (talk) 19:48, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Betty Rae Frank KC, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Betty Rae Frank KC|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. 331dot (talk) 20:45, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your guidance. I do want to properly disclose and be fully transparent. Thank you for your understanding as this is all new for me but I do want to respect the Wikipedia community. I will make sure that my disclosure information is updated. Betty Rae Frank KC (talk) 22:39, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello 331dot - Thank you again for your guidance regarding disclosures. My profile page is now fully updated to clearly note my COI and I will also continue to flag this proactively in any future edit requests I make via the Talk page for C2FO. Please let me know if you think it needs anything further, I want to be a good and transparent partner to the editing community. Thank you! Betty Rae Frank KC (talk) 16:07, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

You have properly disclosed, thanks. Instructions on making an edit request can be viewed here. You can just post on the article talk page, but marking your post as an edit request will draw the attention of other editors beyond the few who may be following a particular article(if any at all). 331dot (talk) 19:32, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing and your guidance again. Really appreciate this. Will closely review the links you provided! Betty Rae Frank KC (talk) 17:51, 21 September 2023 (UTC)